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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 32 “How many Ecuadorians do you have to meet before you can say that they all behave the same way? I think you’re taking it too far.” says Bochdan. “You’re right. We all deserve a chance. Put yourself in his place. He’s alone here.” Mohamed has been silent for a while but he seems to have changed his mind about me. “Oh, all right. We’ll let him play for the time being.” says José. “So, what are we doing this afternoon? Shall we go to the courts?” Silvia asks the other boys. “Okay. We’ll meet there at six. We have a team now, so we have to do something. We need a place to train.” says Raul stubbornly. On the way home, Bochdan realizes that they forgot something very important; nobody asked Christian if he wanted to play football with them. But if he didn’t want to, he would have said something, right? Episode 4: Getting the pitch It is nearly six o’clock and we are about to go to the courts and try our luck at convincing the Ecuadorians to let us play, but first we stop to decide how we are going to arrange everything. “Hi boys.” “Hi Mohamed. We are thinking about what we can do to get some training time on the courts.” says Bochdan. “It’s pretty clear to me. We should fight, show them what we are made of… whoever wins keeps the courts.” says Mohamed. “I don’t think that is a good way to get time on the courts. Firstly, we would surely lose, since there are a lot less of us and they are strong- er. And besides, if we somehow managed to beat them, they would be back tomorrow with more friends and we would have to fight again. Nobody can keep the courts through force forever.” says Raul. “I agree with Raul. I think the best idea is to talk to the Ecuado- rians, explain that we also want to play on the courts and it is unfair